Hello, I would like to thank Greg Roberts for writing about the elephant in the room.
Everybody in the Australian birding community has respect for John Young in regards to his knowledge, his bushcraft and, as his latest sighting and photography of the Night Parrot demonstrate, his tenacity. I cant imagine anyone not wanting to congratulate John for this significant discovery.
It is upsetting and irrational for some birding-aus members, however to use Johns latest discovery as an opportunity to denigrate well intentioned and reasoned critics of some of John Youngs prior behaviour and claims. This suck eggs [excuse the avian pun] attitude, demonstrated below, is not helpful.
Congratulations to John Young Maybe a lot of his detractors will grovel and eat humble pie now! he copped a lot of unfair criticism – mostly from jealous people I suspect instead of knocking his efforts (as a small group who had never met the man unfairly did some years ago)
That John Young is right now does not mean that he was always correct in the past or that he will be in the future. And that of course stands for every single person.
John Young and others should be judged not by simply their claims but by the evidence that they produce.
Cheers as I begin to barricade myself, Ken Cross
